RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

October 31, 2024, 5:35 PM


PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A co-chair of Donald Trump's transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.

Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy's debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.

While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture.

The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rfk-jr-federal-health-data-show-vaccines-unsafe-115372110

[mgardener]

1. Trump's secretary of Ed

Betsy DeVos, was not an educator and had no education degree. She had a business degree.
So I could totally see Trump appt Bobby Kennedy.

[riversedge]

3. As we know it is all about loyality--and MONEY for Trump.

[Harker]

5. She did great damage in her efforts to destroy the Dept. of Education.

Kennedy would likely be a disaster for public health.

[Blue_Roses]

14. And she was a flop

That woman had no business in that position

[Vinca]

2. Make polio great again??

[travelingthrulife]

4. Sure Bob. Billions of people received the covid vax without issue.

[milestogo]

6. Start with your conclusion

and then amass data selectively to support it.

[Demnation]

7. Available online for anyone already, dumbass. Once a conspiracy nut, always...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm

[Javaman]

8. you can hear this piece of shit salivating from here. what a fucking psychopath. nt

[kacekwl]

9. Response,

Weirdo you get nothing and like it.

[DFW]

10. Another day, another reason Trump can't be permitted anywhere near the Oval Office ever again.... n/t

[Blue_Roses]

15. The list is long

and gets longer each day

[GiqueCee]

11. This malevolent disgrace to the Kennedy name...

... is a despicable turd with the moral compass of a rabid hyena. He couldn't stand living in his father's shadow, and couldn't get enough attention as an environmental lawyer, so he became so self-destructive that he is determined to take as many people down with him as possible with his malice and deceit.
THAT is what he'll be remembered for. If he's remembered at all. Better that all memory of him be erased.

[wolfie001]

12. And diphtheria, whooping cough and polio?

So much crazy with worm-brain. I wonder if he sided with Alex Jones and his "Contrails" conspiracy?

[Montauk6]

13. "erm ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY, JUNE-YAH, erm PLEASE STOP!!!!!!"